image extraction

hello all, I would consider myself intermediate photoshop, but to the photoshop community most likely a nub. anyways, I have been trying with different ways to extract this breaker from an image, with all attempts looking edgy and not professional. soooo I thought I could come here for help.



here is the image.
ideas, suggestions, help

thanks guys!
-m.

Its a tame solution but I would use the pen tool. I would imagine that mosk masking techniques could not 'grab' enough info to make a great selection.

Using the pen tool you would get a clean line, although you would have to touch up the bottom right of the beaker manually.

I agree with thehermit, using the Pen-tool would be probably the best choice. And one can always use the Eraser to repair small mistakes.
But I don't think you have to take the right bottom of the breaker manually as thehermit said, you just have to change the anchor points in the vector mask, which is done by using the Direct Selection tool (white arrow) and pressing ctrl+alt and then clicking the control points, the small circles.

Although the use of vectors can be hard in the beginning if you haven't done it before. Good luck!

I have an elite program called knockout2 I suggest that.. but if you don't have that,try using the pen tool.. or using a mask.

You go ahead and use your leet Knockout.

I can do it in Photoshop. Just as fast.

To teach anyone though, would require a complete brain D/L of all the stuff I have learned over the past 44+ years.

They don't make the proper wiring for that yet.

And it would take me longer than the next 44 years to write it all out, since I tend to get wordy in the details.